Word: lumumbaman
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot them if Lumumba should die in his Katanga jail; Gizenga now was getting regular arms shipments from Cairo, trucked in overland via the Sudan. To the south, Lumumbaman Anicet Kashamura clung to Kivu province, where his troops stole cars and gasoline from white businessmen. Eight hapless Belgian soldiers, captured after they had wandered across the border from the protectorate of Ruanda-Urundi, were forced to kneel and submit to public beating...
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